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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "You've got to pull yourself together," he said with soothing gruffness.
2 I tried to make her stop, but she couldn't so I pulled on the emergency brake.
3 'All right,' says Rosy and begins to get up and I pulled him down in his chair.
4 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
5 The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.
6 For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my leg but a glance at him convinced me otherwise.
7 She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls.
8 As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down kissing him on the mouth.
9 There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.
10 Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.
11 With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse's hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.
12 His eyes leaked continuously with excitement and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse grey beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.
13 I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
14 When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air.
15 It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.